More Info →Ferry at Cook's Manawatu (now Foxton), c.1860

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Black and white print and laminated photocopy.

Printed information by Alexander Turnbull Library (National Library) attached to back.

“Ferry at Cook’s, Manawatu, now Foxton”, c.1860. Print from Alexander Turnbull Library. Signature at bottom right of engraving: Paterson sc. Wood engraving print by James Coutts Crawford (1817 – 1889)

Description at Turnbull online:

A view up or down the Manawatu River, close to modern Foxton, with the ferryman's cottage on the higher left bank, a jetty curving down to the river, a crane at the end of the jetty and the flat pontoon-style ferry in the water. Two canoes being poled across the river and several people swimming. A third canoe is drawn up beside the river, at the foot of the bank.

Black and white print and laminated photocopy.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

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